Biography

Lobsang Phuntsok was the subject of the film, Tashi and the Monk; he is a Buddhist monk from the Tawang District of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Due to family challenges, he was raised by his grandparents until the age of seven. At that young age, they sent him to study at Sera Je Monastery near Mysore, Karnataka in South India. He seeks to serve the needs of the remote Himalayan region where he was born. 

Lobsang envisioned an educational Community where at-risk children from impoverished villages could thrive and learn in an environment founded on the principles of love, compassion, and wisdom which were at the core of his own Buddhist upbringing. His inspiration was to share the blessings of education and the opportunities he had received during his experience growing up at Sera Je Monastery in southern India and his travels around the world.